GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| brook | creek |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| choice | the act of choosing : selection |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| adjutant | a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |